This is what's wrong with The Industry™
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more like if your bike stuff is x4, are your salaries too?
I remember paying $70 an end for Magura Louise pads back in the day.
To make it worse, the brakes sucked and ate pads.
Oh yeah totally. Over here Elon isn't making minimum wage.
New innovative device for checking facebook/texting while riding
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It deserves its own thread
Yes, what a relief!
once at the bike park i saw a dude on a bike who legit had his fork on backwards. it was a Manitou sherman or something. his whole front end was about to rattle apart.Yes, what a relief!
I'm sure I've mentioned this before but the old bike shop I went to as a grom had a few bikes permanently parked in the alley out back for Friday beer challenges. One had set of cogs the bars turned the opposite way to the wheel, another had a pivot in the middle of the frame and fixed bars/steerer so you turned the bike by pivoting the bike in the centre, and another had a drive system that instead of pedals consisted of two platforms you pushed up and down like a stepping machine.
Anyway, one Friday night some drunks or whatever tried to steal them and the shop employees recovered them all in various walking distances of the store where they'd been dumped as the thieves gave up trying to ride the awful bloody things.
$35 for a tube?!
Better last longer than 6 regular tubes.
I like the idea, (thin, compact, light, supposedly stronger) but if that's the only tube I have and bros are like "You gotta tube?" I'll be saying NO. Or give me $40.
www.tubolito.com
Better last longer than 6 regular tubes.
I like the idea, (thin, compact, light, supposedly stronger) but if that's the only tube I have and bros are like "You gotta tube?" I'll be saying NO. Or give me $40.
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You can buy today urethane tubes for cheap from aliexpress. Or from more brands in 700c for the roadies.$35 for a tube?!
Better last longer than 6 regular tubes.
I like the idea, (thin, compact, light, supposedly stronger) but if that's the only tube I have and bros are like "You gotta tube?" I'll be saying NO. Or give me $40.
Tubolito - Beyond the norm
Bicycle tubes carefully engineered to exceed all expectations, breaking barriers of toughness, weight and size.
damn, that sounds like our ship bitd. we had both a swing bike (the mid pivot thing) and a reverse steering bike. swing bike was kinda fun carving around on, but the reverse steer was impossible (for me) to wrap my head around. ie, how to look completely drunk on a bike - even when sober.
Although I'm not one of them, some people ask for that or more even if they have a regular cheap tube.I'll be saying NO. Or give me $40.
A lot of the people that bought them as spares are finding out theyve broken/wont hold air when comes time to use.$35 for a tube?!
Better last longer than 6 regular tubes.
I like the idea, (thin, compact, light, supposedly stronger) but if that's the only tube I have and bros are like "You gotta tube?" I'll be saying NO. Or give me $40.
Tubolito - Beyond the norm
Bicycle tubes carefully engineered to exceed all expectations, breaking barriers of toughness, weight and size.
I've used the FOSS ones back in the day, for XC racing. Great puncture resistance, ridiculous weight, cheap, and you can patch them with a match/lighter in a pinch, but they stretch over time if youy inflate them out of the tire (like when looking for a puncture to patch), so they become thinner and easier to puncture.
FWIW, I've been running one on the front of my bike for 3 years and never had any trouble. No sealant to deal with, no flats, stays inflated, but I don't remember the last time I had a front flat. From Germany, it was like 26$usd at the time, so the expense was worth it in my opinion.$35 for a tube?!
Better last longer than 6 regular tubes.
I like the idea, (thin, compact, light, supposedly stronger) but if that's the only tube I have and bros are like "You gotta tube?" I'll be saying NO. Or give me $40.
Tubolito - Beyond the norm
Bicycle tubes carefully engineered to exceed all expectations, breaking barriers of toughness, weight and size.
fondle your balls while being cozy poncho from enve for the low low price of just 290$
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at least that pouch can hold a lot of weed
Tbh pre inflation I'd call that crazy expensive but in late 2022? I don't know. Maybe Lidl ponchos cost 200E.
Still as someonethat has sewn a poncho. WTF Enve. It's a mid weather poncho. How is it better than Terrex?
Gonna let the comments on this one marinate for a bit, should be some good reading material later on.
the perfect match to a full assos kit.
LOL
Or buy 2 tubeless shrader valves for $5
sorry if they don't have any aluminuim or titanium or carbon fibre or come in pointless anodised colours
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sorry if they don't have any aluminuim or titanium or carbon fibre or come in pointless anodised colours
Who the fuck is Joe though? Does he know Stan? Is he friends with MySpace Tom? These are questions that need answers.Or buy 2 tubeless shrader valves for $5
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sorry if they don't have any aluminuim or titanium or carbon fibre or come in pointless anodised colours
Am I the only one who has been using Lezyne pumps with the flexhose for 15 years without any issue or valve core unthreading? I find that the hose is perfect to not yank on the valve with the pump head and keeps them in one piece.
edit: damn! Wrong pump/valve thread!!
edit: damn! Wrong pump/valve thread!!
Looking back at brands years ago, we had ingenuity, new ideas, design and of course, marketing. But every brand aimed to make something different. All bikes stood out. You could look at a Ventana and know it's not a BMW. A GT I-Drive wasn't at all like a Chumba. Nor was a Demo confused with a Mongoose. Every manufacturer was different in many ways.
Not so today. How many different ways can you manufacture the same bike and call it different?
I just looked up Deviate and saw their frame only is $3600. Next to it are Forbidden, Canyon and other frames for sale. The Forbidden is $3500.
For what? A bicycle frame that's no better and only slightly different than other frames?
Even though a dentist can afford these bikes, a dentist can also afford a $400 bike. But not many can afford a $4000 frame. Even those of us who have been involved for 3+ decades are starting to look away from bikes cause of this.
I understand that everything is out of control anymore. But the industry is just pricing average Joe's out of the industry really.
Not so today. How many different ways can you manufacture the same bike and call it different?
I just looked up Deviate and saw their frame only is $3600. Next to it are Forbidden, Canyon and other frames for sale. The Forbidden is $3500.
For what? A bicycle frame that's no better and only slightly different than other frames?
Even though a dentist can afford these bikes, a dentist can also afford a $400 bike. But not many can afford a $4000 frame. Even those of us who have been involved for 3+ decades are starting to look away from bikes cause of this.
I understand that everything is out of control anymore. But the industry is just pricing average Joe's out of the industry really.
Just like cars, phones, homes, computers, .... the design has matured.
The lack of difference stems from the fact people actually know what they are doing and we have narrowed down designs that work. I don't think variety for the sake of variety is nice. Do you really want Santa Cruz still designing leverage curves that make no sense? Mongoose offering shit suspension? Spec still pretending no rearward travel is the bestest when it isnt?
I am also mad about the industry catering more and more to upper middle class men over 40 living in developed countries but that's just the pricing. I'm not mad about more bikes being good. It's way harder to buy a bike that rides horribly in 2022 than in 2007. Sure some of them still crack or have horrible customer service but at least design wise we are miles ahead (I'd still say my perfect enduro bike doesn't exist but I also know I'm weird and what I need is just a cross between a few bikes currently available)